38.1 - Alan Chan on Agent Infrastructure

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Road lines, street lights, and licence plates are examples of infrastructure used to ensure that roads operate smoothly. In this episode, Alan Chan talks about using similar interventions to help avoid bad outcomes from the deployment of AI agents.

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The transcript: https://axrp.net/episode/2024/11/16/episode-38_1-alan-chan-agent-infrastructure.html

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The Alignment Workshop: https://www.alignment-workshop.com/

Topics we discuss, and timestamps:

01:02 - How the Alignment Workshop is

01:32 - Agent infrastructure

04:57 - Why agent infrastructure

07:54 - A trichotomy of agent infrastructure

13:59 - Agent IDs

18:17 - Agent channels

20:29 - Relation to AI control

Links:

Alan on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lmQmYPgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

IDs for AI Systems: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12137

Visibility into AI Agents: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13138

Episode art by Hamish Doodles: hamishdoodles.com

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